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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 21
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Manasseh turns Judah to idolatry, even sacrificing a son to a heathen god—Prophets foretell destruction of Judah and Jerusalem—Wickedness continues under Amon.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 33: 1 (1-20)."><span class='smallcaps'>Manasseh</span></a> <i>was</i> twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Hephzi-bah.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sin.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, after the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">abominations</a> of the heathen, whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> cast out before the children of Israel.
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For he built up again the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 18: 4.">high</a> places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 16: 33 (32-33).">grove</a>, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 17: 16 (15-17).">host</a> of heaven, and served them.
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And he built <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/4a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jer. 7: 30 (29-31); TG Idolatry.">altars</a> in the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 23: 39.">house</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, of which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, In Jerusalem will I put my <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 8: 29; 1 Kgs. 9: 3 (1-4).">name</a>.
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 36; 1 Kgs. 7: 12.">courts</a> of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he made his son pass through the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/6a" mark="a" type="C" title="Lev. 18: 21; 2 Chr. 28: 3; 2 Chr. 33: 6; Ezek. 20: 26; TG Superstitions.">fire</a>, and observed times, and used <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 26.">enchantments</a>, and dealt with <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">familiar</a> spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to provoke <i>him</i> to anger.
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And he set a graven <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">image</a> of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
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Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
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But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Tyranny.">evil</a> than did the nations whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> destroyed before the children of Israel.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
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Because <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 15: 4.">Manasseh</a> king of Judah hath done these <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 3 (3-4).">abominations</a>, <i>and</i> hath done <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 21: 26; 2 Kgs. 23: 26.">wickedly</a> above all that the Amorites did, which <i>were</i> before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, Behold, I <i>am </i>bringing <i>such</i> evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 3: 11; Jer. 19: 3.">tingle</a>.
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And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as <i>a man</i> wipeth a dish, wiping <i>it,</i> and turning <i>it</i> upside down.
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And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 2.">deliver</a> them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
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Because they have done <i>that which was</i> evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
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Moreover Manasseh <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 24: 4.">shed</a> innocent <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Blood, Shedding of.">blood</a> very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 33: 18 (11-19).">Manasseh</a>, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 33: 21 (21-25).">Amon</a> <i>was</i> twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as his father Manasseh did.
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And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
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And he forsook the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
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And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/21/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 1: 1.">Josiah</a> his son king in his stead.
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Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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